Talking Drupal #131 - Third Party APIs

In episode #131 we talk about interfacing your Drupal website with third party APIs.

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Tips of the Week

• Nic - sign up for Talking Drupal’s new Newsletter to receive bonus material at www.talkingdrupal.com
• John - Consider upgrading your Mac before buying a new one.  A Memory upgrade and/or solid state drive can make an old machine new again.
• Stephen - Look for local meet ups. It’s a great place to learn and make new Drupal friends.

Show Notes

• What is an API?  A contract between two applications.
• Client side vs server side access to third party APIs
• Evaluating APIs
  • Is the API well documentation.
  • Use tools to test the API before you invest time in writing code - (chrome extensions) Advances REST Client, Postman 
  • Relationship with company providing the API. Do you have access to technical support?
• Authentication - authentication methods, depends of the API
• Interested in an API - look for a Drupal modules first, before coding one yourself

Module of the Week

CKEditor Anchor Link for Drupal 8

The Drupal 8 Core CKEditor is missing some very important options.

Resources

• Advanced REST Client
• Postman

 

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan